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Re: [Advance Warning PATCH] Move gitk to its own subdirectory

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 18, 2007, 01:18 UTC
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> You made it part of "all" target, which we will have to change if gitk
> is to become a subproject: Makefile better handle absence of the
> Makefile under gitk-git, and continue build.
Not necessarily.

The policy is completely up to the superproject (which is git.git). Currently, the policy is "make all" and "make install" in git.git builds and installs what are considered core parts of the system which includes git-gui and gitk.

gitk nor git-gui should not become useless without being in git.git (iow, their build procedure better not depend on things outside their subtree), but I do not think that is a hard requirement either. Shawn *chose* to keep git-gui buildable and installable separately as well as as part of git.git. Again I think that policy is up to individual subprojects.

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  1. Move gitk to its own subdirectoryJunio C Hamano, Nov 17, 2007
  2. Alex RiesenNov 17, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2007

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